Uparkot Caves

Uparkot Caves
Upper floor of the Uperkot caves
Map showing the location of Uparkot Caves
Map showing the location of Uparkot Caves
Map showing the location of Uparkot Caves
Map showing the location of Uparkot Caves
Coordinates21°31′33″N 70°28′09″E / 21.5257426°N 70.4692992°E / 21.5257426; 70.4692992

Uparkot caves, also Uperkot caves, are ancient man-made caverns. The caves are a part of the Junagadh Buddhist Cave Groups situated in the eastern part of Junagadh of the Indian state of Gujarat.

Caves

These caves located at Uperkot beyond the 300 ft deep moat, close to Adi Kadi Vav, were carved in 2nd–3rd century A.D. These caves have influence of Satavahana architecture with combination of Graeco-Scythian style.

According to ASI "The cave group is in three tiers, with all members of each galleries shown in semi-relief, but only two storeys having regular floors. The caves at Uparkot are cut into two floors. On the first floor, there is a Kunda, a deep tank about 11 feet square, with a covered verandah round three sides of it. There is a big chamber with six pillars supporting the roof adjoining it. Under the corridor, in the rest of the area, in the walls on the north-east and west sides are stone bench-recesses, divided into long compartments with a base moulded in architectural courses below, and a frieze above, ornamented with horseshoe shaped chaitya windows and checker carvings. On the lower floor, there are similar rooms, having a corridor, pillars supporting the floor above, stone bench-recesses and above them, the chaitya-window ornament.[1][2][3]

The lower floor has exquisitely carved pillars whose base, shaft and capital carry unique decorative design. These caves are gilded with beautiful pillars and entrances, water cisterns, horseshoe shaped chaitya windows, an assembly hall and cell for meditation.[1]

  • Plan of Uparkot caves; lower floor (left) and upper floor (right)
    Plan of Uparkot caves; lower floor (left) and upper floor (right)
  • View from the top.
    View from the top.
  • Internal room.
    Internal room.
  • Uperkot caves ornate pillars 1st century AD
    Uperkot caves ornate pillars 1st century AD
  • Pillar capitals.
    Pillar capitals.
  • Pillar base.
    Pillar base.
  • Vihara cells.
    Vihara cells.
  • Deep tank.
    Deep tank.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buddhist caves, Uperkot.
  1. ^ a b "Ticketed Monuments - Gujarat Buddhist Cave Groups, Uperkot, Junagadh". Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  2. ^ Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia (1941). The Archaeology of Gujarat: Including Kathiawar. Natwarlal & Company. pp. 49–51.
  3. ^ "Uparkot". Gujarat Tourism - Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.

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